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Detailed explanation-1: -IIT-Hyderabad researchers develop smartphone-based system to detect adulteration in milk-GKToday.

Detailed explanation-2: -The researchers from IIT Hyderabad are developing ‘smartphone-based sensors’ to detect adulteration in milk.

Detailed explanation-3: -FSSAI is however committed to zero tolerance for any adulteration and contamination of milk.

Detailed explanation-4: -Testing Method: Put a drop of milk on a polished slanting surface. Pure milk either stays or flows slowly leaving a white trail behind. Milk adulterated with water will flow immediately without leaving a mark.

Detailed explanation-5: -A lactometer is an instrument that is used to check for the purity of milk by measuring its density. An instrument to find out the content of water in milk or to test the richness of milk is thus termed as ‘lactometer’. The lactometer works on the principle of gravity of milk.